Build Your Own Bamboo Bike

npr.org:

The Bamboo Bike Studio is run by three men in their late 20s who know a lot about bamboo and a lot about bicycles. On a cool autumn morning, two of them are out on a bamboo harvest -- in a dense grove near New Brunswick, N.J.

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Comments

[mp3sevdam]

03:49 AM on 01/04/2010

the answer to our quest to make it colder outside. They're inefficient with a perfection that no environmentalist could resist.
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[BannedNBoston]

12:24 PM on 12/30/2009

You want a frame that doesn't flex too much.

""I think bamboo bicycles could be the answer to our quest to make it colder outside. They're inefficient with a perfection that no environmentalist could resist.""
kobrock1

[BannedNBoston]

03:42 PM on 12/29/2009

I prefer my French made frame with moly alloy and fancy sweated metal joints.
It can be recycled too.

[jsarets]

08:20 AM on 12/28/2009

Very nice. Next step is to replace the epoxy resin with UV-cure linseed oil resin:

http://www.suscomp.com/resins.htm

Then hemp fiber instead of carbon for the reinforcement.

[The Meek]

08:04 AM on 12/29/2009

Thanks for the link. I have bookmarked it.

[jsarets]

08:28 AM on 12/29/2009

You may also be interested in this:

http://www.fiberforge.com/thermoplastic-composites/thermoplastic-composites.php

This company is a spin-off of a sustainable car project headed by the visionary Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

[kobrock1]

08:14 AM on 12/28/2009

I think bamboo bicycles could be the answer to our quest to make it colder outside. They're inefficient with a perfection that no environmentalist could resist.

[TazoWolf]

02:18 AM on 12/28/2009

Very kewl. If I could afford it, I'd do it. Not sure bamboo would have survived the bike wreck I had the other week, though.

Riding for Renal in 2010
http://www.firstgiving.org/riding4renal_circarigel